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23rd March 2020

Dear Parent(s)

Re: COVID-19 - MESSAGE TO PARENTS OF KEY WORKERS

Thank you for responding to our survey and identifying yourself as a Key Worker who may potentially need to utilise the school to supervise your children during this virus outbreak.  Can I firstly thank you for the essential work that you are doing in keeping our country running during this difficult time, each of you are serving our community in some way, enabling the vast majority of the population to stringently apply the principles of self-isolation or social distancing.

From our initial enquiry there were some fifty plus students identified as potentially needing supervision, but with the change in the Governments directives to try and cut down on all unnecessary contact outside of the home, we have only had some thirteen students arrive at school today.  The points emphasised by the Government about only sending your child to school if it is absolutely necessary and because there was no other safe alternative, and increasing the insistence of social distancing in all settings, have clearly driven this reduction.

I am therefore following the Government guidance and will reduce the teaching staff that will be required to travel to school, to supervise this smaller number of students.  Please could I ask that any parent needing to utilise this emergency Key Worker supervision can email my PA, Ms Gina Breyer at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to confirm which days this is essential, so that we can continue to review our staffing levels.

Any student who does attend school must sign in at the main school reception, and then proceed to the canteen between 8.30am to 8.55am.  Contrary to my previous request for students to wear school uniform, they can now attend in clothing of their choice.  This is to enable them, and the staff who are supervising them to wear clothing that can be put in washing machine at the end of each day rather than wearing a uniform or a suit that requires dry cleaning.  Students will be supervised in our largest teaching space, the 6th Form Study Centre so that there is social distancing between them.  They will have access to the school canteen at lunch and break time where food will be available and they will have opportunity to utilise the school grounds at these points to get some fresh air as well. 

Due to the constraints of social distancing students will be working individually on their studies, and collaborative work requiring contact between students, will be prohibited.  Please can I reiterate the increasingly insistent message from the Government that “If it is at all possible for children to be at home, then they should be.”  Can I thank you for your assistance in following this advice and thank you again for the vital work that you are doing.

Yours faithfully

Mr Phil Grundy

Principal

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